Here is where we will run our private discussion about the upcoming "All Thrills No Frills" olfsl season.

Mauni and I ean a 28 lap test race today against a good nix of drivers, while Three Jump proved to be his usual power house, Mauni gave chase for a while.

I managed a 4th and must say drove a very clean race, no mistakes, no wall hits and my lap times were very consist-ant.

Streaming of these pools will be available and I will provide the links here for any members that want to watch.

The Set mauni provided just before our race proved to be a stable and easy drive, even though he spun it out, the tires cooled around lap 12 BUT I would not go driving r2's they just cannot do 5 laps without banging the walls.

All of our LFS drivers are due to race Sunday and we will try our best to gather points for the season, looks like Izzy and wakey will be in the same pool, so work together to help each other.

REMEMBER if you cannot make the race , use team CP in olfsl to remove yourself.

Where's this last minute Mauni set? Is it different from the one he shared the other day?

I'm next to last on the grid for this race.All due to very littly time to prepare for this event (did my first lap less than 36 hours before the deadline)Since the race will more than likely be really early in the morning (anywhere from 3-6 am or so) my focus is on finishing.

I've been driving offline, multiple tests of around 10 laps (just can't seem to get enough free uninterrupted time to do all 28 in 1 go) to drive smooth and not burn the tires / crash.

Red Bull will be my friend Monday morning ... let's get some points!Did I mention I hate RWD cars ? Most of this seasons combos are a nightmare for me !

The set is basically the same as in the other thread. I posted a link for the set I used yesterday just to be sure www.student.oulu.fi/~markusso/FO8_SO5RmauniRace.set

It uses R3s and should have no problem with tyres, although they take some heat before cooling down after lap 12 as Ant said. It was pretty stable. I spun only once . Around lap 20 or so I hugged wall at T1. Wasn't even hard hit, but the car went undrivable and I had to pit for repairs, which dropped me from 3rd to 5th. So better not to get too greedy as I did, it just costs a lot of time.

Just finished my Race.I was in 4th when I finished and Disconnected ... hope the server registered me as finishing

Race was .. fairly boring as I ended in a huge gap after the start mayhem.Slowly caught up people crashing / DC'ing / pit-stopping ... nearly lost it at the end when the guy in 2nd was driving very slow .. but I managed to keep it steady.Praying the server has me registered crossing the line

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Think I made it, Russ Greeno confirmed it on the shoutbox.Let's wait and see for the results

My race couldn't have been better. Started 6th and got to 4th on lap one behind Izzy. On lap 6 S/F straight Izzy gave me perfect draft and launched me forward like a space rocket . Right in the next corner I was able to pass the guy in 2nd and got 1st place soon after that. I got a little damage to my car in the process, but not enough to keep me making the fastest lap .

The rest of the race I was able to slowly increase gap to others as Izzy was giving hard time to Ascona in the fight for 2nd place.

Sorry for those two kisses I gave to you Izzy, weren't intentional

Well done Rookie, from 2nd last to 4th is very impressive . Your race is also shown on LFSW, you did finish before disconnection

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I think I can only race if it's a my time evening race . Because of real life, the race should start after 18:00 GMT or else I won't make it for sure. I hope to make it, with some luck I would be starting behind others along with Izzy in pool 2.

If I do start from the back of the pack, I'll make an early pit stop. Not sure if it's possible on lap one, depends on the S/F line of the FE3, rules say that you can make a pit stop on first lap only if your pit box is after S/F line . Anyway, that should lead to nice gain of positions, when starting from back...

I made some testing today and this set should be a okay for the race (just one minor adjustment in suspension over the last one, don't know if it matters at all ):http://www.student.oulu.fi/~markusso/LFS/XFR_FE3mauniTesti2.set

Bad news is that I drove about 15 lap stint with race fuel and tyres never cooled down . Also rear right was getting very hot too, causing car to slide a bit in left handers . But overall it should be good, just don't let the tyre temps to rise much over 120... Would be interesting to test R3 at the back as the rear end traction doesn't seem to matter too much with this car.

More bad news . I did a race with HR V.Kazantzas, who starts right behind me and Izzy. He was running with R4/R2 and had no tyre problems whatsoever... He also did 1:23:40, don't know how heavy he was.

I did some testing and decided to stick with my qualy setup running R3/R2 for the race.

Did a few shorter stints with full race load and found a stable race pace without burning the tires.We'll see how I go, I expect a hard race cause I'm going to be very tired.Seeing how the AI cars had trouble in T1 I'm gonna back off really early and try to stay clear from all the mayhem in the first lap.

Overtaking seems to be tricky (altho AI cars just turn into you)... gonna be a fun race.

Pit-stop will be stop and go ... unless I have damage or tire issues, starting with full race fuel.

Just finished the pool 3 race, Wakey (as always) had a strong race with a 4th place finish. I spun on lap 1 and just could not get into the groove after that. Really bad driving on my part today, I will try harder next race.

We still collected points and hopefully we're doing good, hard to tell as it's only race 2.